In re C.M. CA2/8

BACKGROUND

C.M. was born in March 2011. She lived with mother and her maternal grandmother for the first few days of her life until father and her paternal grandparents removed her from mother’s care. C.M. then apparently resided with mother and father between March and May 2011, but when father was arrested for drug offenses in May 2011, father left C.M. with her paternal grandparents. The paternal grandparents filed a petition with the probate court in June 2011 for temporary legal guardianship, which was granted. That probate proceeding generated this dependency case based on a referral pursuant to Probate Code section 1513, former subdivision (c).3 On August

All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code, unless otherwise indicated. Father is not a party to the instant appeal. At the time of the referral, Probate Code section 1513, former subdivision (c) required the probate court to refer the case to the relevant social services agency for dependency investigation if there are allegations a parent is unfit. (Prob. Code, § 1513, former subd. (c), amended by Stats. 2012, ch. 638, § 14; see In re Kaylee H. (2012) 205…